Front And Side Panels - NETGEAR R6300v2 User Manual

Front and Side Panels

The router front panel has the status LEDs and icons shown in the following figure.
LEDs
Figure 2. Router front and side view
Table 1. Front panel LED descriptions
LED Description
Power • Solid amber. The router is starting up.
• Blinking amber. The firmware is upgrading, or the Reset button was pressed.
• Solid green. The router is ready.
• Blinking green. The firmware is corrupted. Visit www.netgear.com/support.
• Off. Power is not supplied to the router.
Internet • Solid green. The Internet connection is ready.
• Solid amber. The Ethernet cable connection to the modem has been detected.
• Off. No Ethernet cable is connected to the modem.
Wireless
• Solid blue. The wireless radio is operating in either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz mode.
• Blinking. A wireless computer or device is using WPS to join the network.
• Off. The wireless radios are off for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
USB • Solid blue. The router has accepted the USB device. The USB device is ready to be used.
• Blinking blue. A USB device is plugged in and is trying to connect.
• Off. No USB device is connected or someone clicked the Safely Remove Hardware button,
and it is now safe to remove the attached USB device.
The WiFi and WPS buttons toggle the WiFi and WPS functions on and off.
• WiFi On/Off button. Pressing and holding this button for two seconds turns on and off
the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless radios. If the Wireless LED is lit, the wireless radios are
R6300v2 Smart WiFi Router
WiFi On/Off button
WPS button
USB 2.0 port
Hardware Setup
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